Comments on: Microsoft Security Essentials ranked No 2 out of 25! https://news.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-security-essentials-ranked-no-2-out-of-25-1976/ TheWindowsClub Tech News covers the latest Microsoft Windows 10 news, along with other products & services like Office, etc. Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:06:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: H C A https://news.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-security-essentials-ranked-no-2-out-of-25-1976/#comment-75 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:02:32 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=1976#comment-75 > Microsoft Security Essentials picked up viruses > and malware that my ESET NOD Anti Virus didn’t. > I’m super impressed – and the fact that it’s
> free? Kudos to you Microsoft!

Yeah, what you will find is most of them are false positives. It found a load on mine – mainly program ‘patches’ 😉 which I have run without a problem. Seriously, stick with NOD, I’M going to, using Security Essentials is just asking for trouble.

]]> By: H C A https://news.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-security-essentials-ranked-no-2-out-of-25-1976/#comment-74 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:59:45 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=1976#comment-74 In the process of cleaning an infected machine. Installed MS Security Essentials just yesterday, today it’s back with added ransomeware.

Have now removed Security Essentials, am going to put AVG Free back on it. My own test ‘in the wild’ seems to suggest Microsoft’s little foray into Antivirus protection is lacking in one vital area: i.e. that of realtime DETECTION. 1/10

]]> By: Melanie https://news.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-security-essentials-ranked-no-2-out-of-25-1976/#comment-73 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:59:11 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=1976#comment-73 Microsoft Security Essentials picked up viruses and malware that my ESET NOD Anti Virus didn’t. I’m super impressed – and the fact that it’s free? Kudos to you Microsoft!

]]> By: David https://news.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-security-essentials-ranked-no-2-out-of-25-1976/#comment-72 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:25:57 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=1976#comment-72 hi
i say Microsoft Security Essentials is a crap program. My OS is Win7 ultimate 32bit.After instalation and restart my PC ,it just frezed everyting was dead , than i have to restart my pc in safe and remov it for good.
My firewall is Zonelab but i do not think it has somthing to do whit it.
Peace.

]]> By: Riaan https://news.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-security-essentials-ranked-no-2-out-of-25-1976/#comment-71 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:51:54 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=1976#comment-71 Forgive me for being negative, but how in the hell do you do tests like these and then not go over to the AV sites and get the newest versions?

Does everyone live in last century? The results are skewed, don’t trust it

]]> By: John L. Galt https://news.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-security-essentials-ranked-no-2-out-of-25-1976/#comment-70 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:49:33 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=1976#comment-70 I was a big fan of the corporate version of Symantec’s AV product for a long time – but when I moved to Vista, then Windows 7 beta, it had major issues. So much so that I switched to using Avast! on all my personal machines.

Installing MSSE on my machines has *finally* gotten rid of a very annoying problem I used to face with W7 and UFDs – namely, that after inserting them, even if after many minutes, I could not get them removed – “something” was always using them.

Now, I have no issues at all removing them. MSSE is on all 3 of my W7 testbeds, and to see it get ranked so highly is a bonus.

This is the second time this year that I can say that M$ finally got it right.

Kudos, Steve and crew.

]]> By: anonymous https://news.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-security-essentials-ranked-no-2-out-of-25-1976/#comment-69 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:59:28 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=1976#comment-69 This is THE age of false positives.

]]> By: Beowülf https://news.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-security-essentials-ranked-no-2-out-of-25-1976/#comment-68 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:34:51 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=1976#comment-68 Kaspersky? Where is Kaspersky? Was it ever tested?

]]> By: Pyu https://news.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-security-essentials-ranked-no-2-out-of-25-1976/#comment-67 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:03:00 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=1976#comment-67 Mine ranks at no. 3 (AVG) 🙂

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